Wtf? Of course you do, hindsights is...... You are so smart.How many other people will make this same decison as you, especially seeing how the two you would have picked have turned out. Honestly when i look at that list I still think we made the right choice , picking Dewayne, we have needed a wide body for a long time and dewyane was rising big time on all the draft boards.
To all the people who are revising history based on the 2006 results that Eric Mangini and Mike Tannenbaum have created: The best defensive players on the 1998 Jets were Aaron Glenn, Mo Lewis, Marvin Jones, Jason Ferguson and Victor Green. The best offensive players were Keyshawn Johnson, Curtis Martin, Vinny Testaverde, Waybe Chrebet and Kevin Mawae. Did that make Pat Kirwan and Rick Kotite 60% responsible for 1998? Of course not. Bill Parcells was 100% responsible for 1998 even though 60% of his top 10 players were provided by prior regimes. I'm not going to rehash the Bradway mistakes again because I've done it often enough. I will say that his record with the Jets was 10-6, 9-7, 6-10, 10-6, 4-12 and that if you draw a progression from that sequence of numbers it's clear the Jets were sinking badly when he was relieved of the helm. Note that his head coach clearly thought they were going under because he scrambled for the lifeboats himself.
Can U imagine how good we may have been back then if Herm & his CS had coached up the players the way Man CS is? Oh well just another nail in Herms coffin that proves he was truly a incompetant coach
Just look at Kansas City. Herm is doing the same thing he did in NY, just riding a few meal tickets (Larry Johnson and Tony Gonzales) and ignoring the need to continously create new options. To his credit the team did not collapse when Green got hurt, but they have looked mediocre with another meal ticket (Green) reinserted despite the results his replacement was getting. If Herm had been the coach of the 2001 Patriots Drew Bledsoe would have gotten his job back after the injury and the Patriots would still be without a Super Bowl win.
I doubt though that Kraft would ever have been as stupid as Woody & hired Herm. I do agree though that Herm would have reinstated DB to the lineup once healthy again
Vinny was 86 years old in 2002. Bledsoe was not yet 30 when he got hurt. And Vinny did not lose his job to injury, he lost it to the Jet's losing a bunch of games in a row.
Vinny had just led us 10 wins in 2001, Bledsoe's days as a competent QB were over and Ne was getting worse every year. When Brady came into that Jet game in September of 2001 you could instantly see a difference in the Patriots offense. The Pats were coming off 5-11 and started 0-2, there is not a chance Herm would have given the job back to Drew.
